Some machines are so large that describing them as “vehicles” or “equipment” almost feels ...

CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for four years to prepare a major upgrade that could transform particle physics.

The famous particle accelerator has gone silent, but its next chapter could usher in a new era of particle physics.

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland is the most massive, most ambitious experiment ever undertaken by humanity. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that uses a ...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

Ideon and a global consortium to conduct the world’s first high-resolution muon imaging experiment powered by a compact laser-plasma accelerator.

Within the constellation Aquila in the northern skies, a powerful cosmic accelerator has been pumping out fast-moving ...

Experimental physics rarely tops the news agenda, but the 2008 launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) catapulted academic theories such as the search for the Higgs boson – also known as the “God ...

In 2010, when scientists were preparing to smash the first particles together within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sections of the media fantasised that the EU-wide experiment might create a black ...